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It is still an open question how the relation between ontologies and their domains can be fixed. We try to give an account of semantic and pragmatic aspects of formal knowledge by describing ontologies in terms of a particular school in philosophy of science, namely structuralism. We reconstruct ontologies as empirical theories and interpret expressions of an ontology language by semantic structures of a theory. It turns out that there are relevant aspects of theories which cannot as yet be taken into consideration in knowledge representation. We thus provide the basis for extending the concept of ontology to a theory of the use of a language in a community.
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Schäufler, C., Artmann, S., Beckstein, C. (2009). A Structuralistic Approach to Ontologies. In: Mertsching, B., Hund, M., Aziz, Z. (eds) KI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. KI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5803. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04617-9_46
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